I learned about this last night while it was breaking news on the Sydney Morning Herald site. The reason I didn't want to post it is because I was scared for the Muslim community around the world. I think every country needs to instill confidence in their Homeland Security before this becomes a exploited issues politically.
Australia might be safer (click here for video) if the authorities let would-be ISIL fighters go to Iraq and Syria instead of keeping them here, according to terrorism expert Professor Clive Williams.
The knowledge of a potential terrorist attack in Sydney came when the authorities gather surveillance through a phone conversation.
Australia might be safer (click here for video) if the authorities let would-be ISIL fighters go to Iraq and Syria instead of keeping them here, according to terrorism expert Professor Clive Williams.
The knowledge of a potential terrorist attack in Sydney came when the authorities gather surveillance through a phone conversation.
One of the men (click here) arrested in this morning's anti-terrorism raids in Sydney has appeared in court on a charge of conspiracy to commit a terrorist act.
Prosecutors allege that he was part of a plan to commit an act to "shock, horrify and terrify" the community. He was refused bail.
Isolated incident.
A Christian school (click here) in Sydney's west has reported death threats aimed at Christians this week.
The principal of the Maronite College of the Holy Family in Harris Park told police that men made the threats from a car outside the school about 2pm on Tuesday.
Sister Margaret Ghosn said the threats were general and then directed towards a staff member of the school.
Price of Life
According to the Times, (click here) some of the young Britons who travelled to Syria to join the fight against President Assad's forces have been left "despondent" that they have instead become embroiled in battles between rival rebel groups. The paper says one man contacted London's International Centre for Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence and "effectively sought amnesty, saying that the group feared long prison terms but would be willing to enrol on a deradicalisation programme and submit to surveillance".
Anthropologist Scott Atran writes in the Guardian about the lure of jihad as an "egalitarian, equal-opportunity employer: fraternal, fast-breaking, glorious and cool" to Western volunteers he describes as "mostly youth in transitional stages in their lives - immigrants, students, between jobs or girlfriends". He adds: "They are self-seekers who have found their way to jihad in myriad ways: through barbecues or on the web; because they were perhaps uncomfortable with binge-drinking or casual sex; or because their parents were humiliated by form-checking bureaucrats or their sisters insulted for wearing a headscarf."
There are differences in culture and government between Australia and the USA and Great Britain. Those differences are realized when issues like this manifest themselves.
I think a realistic 'profile' should be impressed by the government as well as the cooperation of the Muslim communities within the country.
When it comes to the 'Right to Possess Guns," I might add, the gun community is in complete agreement with the USA population that guns should not get in the wrong hands. This redefines the issues of guns in the USA and how the country addresses it. I think the gun community needs to realize, mass shootings in the USA happen. If the USA is to provide for personal guns within it's society it also has to handle Homeland Security in a way that protects all people. This is a challenge for the USA and it is complicated by the huge number of guns in the country while balancing the right to own. Homeland Security has to work for everyone, not simply gun owners.
I think a realistic 'profile' should be impressed by the government as well as the cooperation of the Muslim communities within the country.
When it comes to the 'Right to Possess Guns," I might add, the gun community is in complete agreement with the USA population that guns should not get in the wrong hands. This redefines the issues of guns in the USA and how the country addresses it. I think the gun community needs to realize, mass shootings in the USA happen. If the USA is to provide for personal guns within it's society it also has to handle Homeland Security in a way that protects all people. This is a challenge for the USA and it is complicated by the huge number of guns in the country while balancing the right to own. Homeland Security has to work for everyone, not simply gun owners.
